Some people cough up a lot of dough to master the tough task of reading in English.
Consider the difficulty of learning to read the words cough, dough, and tough, given their nearly identical spellings and vastly different pronunciations.
Unable to rely on consistent ties between letters and sounds, English readers often use additional strategies to decode written words.
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